Compartment case



Patented Dec. 9, 19E-l.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

EDWIN I-I. FARB, OF WHITING, INDIANA.

COMPARTMEN T CASE.

Application filed May 31,

.T0 all 107mm t may] concern.

Be it known that I, EDWIN H. FARB, a citi- Zen of the United States, residing at liVhiting, in the county of Lake and State of Indiana, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Compartment Cases, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to compartment cases and particularly to printers lead and slug cases and its object is to facilitate the removal of leads or slugs or other articles from the case and to prevent the compart- Lments of the case from being over lled to an extent which makes the removal of the contents difhcult.

Cases of this character are made of wood or of metal and provided with a plurality of comparatively shallow compartments, rectangular in shape and of different sizes. If these compartments are filled, as has frequently happened in the past, to their full capacity, they become frozen7 in the language of a printers establishment, and much time is lost and much di'Hiculty is eX- perienced in removing some of the leads or slugs so that access may be had to the supplv and leads or slugs removed as required.

he object of this invention is to enable leads or slugs to be removed from a printers case freely and without diflculty at all times and even when the compartments are iilled to their capacity.

In the accompanying drawings I have illustrated a selected embodiment of the invention and referring thereto- Fig. l is a perspective view of a printers case for holding leads and slugs and embodying my invention;

Fig. 2 is a sectional view on the line 2-2 of Fig. l;

Fig. 3 is a similar sectional view of a different embodiment of the invention.

Referring to the drawings l is an ordinary printers case having a plurality of compartments 5-5 therein of suitable sizes and shapes. Each of these compartments is usually bounded by four walls fastened to the bottom 6 of the case, the opposite walls being parallel and all together forming a clear rectangular compartment which is adapted to be completely filled with leads or slugs 7. It will be readily understood that when a compartment is completely filled with leads or slugs it will become frozen in the sense that all of the leads or slugs will be so tightly packed in the compartment that 1922. serieu No. 564,840.

very great difficulty is experienced in removing any of them.

To avoid this ditiiculty I provide a relativelylow elevated portion or step 8 across each compartment near the upper end thereof which may limit the capacity of the compartment,as indicated at the right of Fig. 2, and provide a space 9 which gives access to the adjacent lead or slug and thereby permits it to be easily removed from the case; or this space may be filled with leads or slugs, as shown at the left of Fig. 2. then the leads or slugs are arranged on the step to lill the compartment to its capacity it will still be possible to easily remove the leads or slugs because, as will be observed at the left of Fig. 2, those on the step project above the others and the side walls of the compartments sutliciently to enable them to be easily grasped for removal. The elevation or step 8 is made low relatively to the height of the leads or slugs or to the depth of the compartment so that the leads or slugs will not be in danger of falling out of the compartment but will nevertheless be raised a sutiicient distance to permit grasping by the fingers.

I may make the step of rectangular cross section with a flat top face as shown in Fig. 2 or I may make it with an inclined or bevelled top face l0, as shown in Fig. 3, in each case the last leads or slugs to be placed in the compartment and the first to be removed therefrom are supported suHiciently above the others and the side walls of the compartment to give ready access thereto for convenient removal.

My invention is of simple character but it has unusual utility for it has frequently happened in the past during my long eX- perience as a practical printer that compartments are so well filled with leads or slugs that much difficulty is experienced and much time is lost in removing them when required, and this dilliculty is increased by the tendency of the leads or slugs to stick together. My invention overcomes this ditiiculty and at the same time enables the compartments to be filled to their capacity.

It is possible to construct what I have referred to as the step in the compartment in a variety of ways to accomplish the object of my invention and I appreciate the fact that the invention as disclosed herein is very simple in character and may be very inexpensively applied to existing equipment and to new equipment, I reserve the right to make all such changes in the form, construction and arrangement of parts of the invention as fairly fall Within the scope of the following claims and in this connection Wish to haveit understood that While the invention is particularly useful in connection with lead and slug` cases it may also be employed with beneficial results in cases for holding other supplies used by printers and for other purposes.

I claim: Y

A printers lead and slug case having an open topped compartment for holding leads or slugs of equal heights, the depth of. the compartment being substantiallyV equal to the height of the leads or slugs and adapted to receive and supportvthem on their edges, the bottom of the compartment having a comparatively lowr elevated portion at the uper end thereof, whereby when the oompartment is filled those leads or slugs atv they upper end thereof will rest on their edges on the elevated portion and will project above the top of the compartment into an accessible position for removal` and When such slugs or leads have been removed the slug or lead ,nextl to the elevated portion Will have one of its faces exposed to the other elevated portion and thereby be accessible for removal from the compartment.

EDWIN H. FARB. 

